Procedural Content Generation for C++ Game Development

Level tiles

Before we start working with a level grid, we need to know how it is set up! Our level is described as a 2D array of a custom type Tile, a struct defined in Level.h:

// A struct that defines the data values our tiles need.
struct Tile
{
TILE type;          // The type of tile this is.
int columnIndex;    // The column index of the tile.
int rowIndex;       // The row index of the tile.
sf::Sprite sprite;  // The tile sprite.
int H;              // Heuristic / movement cost to goal.
int G;              // Movement cost. (Total of entire path)
int F;              // Estimated cost for full path. (G + H)
Tile* parentNode;   // Node to reach this node.
};

Don't worry about the final four values at this point; we'll use them later when we get to the section on path finding! For now, we just need to ...